[B-Greek] 1 Timothy 4:3: KWLUONTWN YAMEIN, APECESQAI
Tom Moore
tom at katabiblon.com
Mon May 31 10:42:36 EDT 2010
I'm confused by the dual infinitive "hindering to marry, to abstain from foods..." in 1 Timothy 4:3:
κωλυόντων γαμεῖν, ἀπέχεσθαι βρωμάτων, ἃ ὁ θεὸς ἔκτισεν εἰς μετάλημψιν μετὰ εὐχαριστίας τοῖς πιστοῖς καὶ ἐπεγνωκόσιν τὴν ἀλήθειαν.
KWLUONTWN YAMEIN, APECESQAI BRWMATWN, hA hO QEOS EKTISEN EIS METALHMYIN META EUCARISTIAS TOIS PISTOIS KAI EPEGNWKOSIN THN ALHQEIAN
This is universally translated as certain persons are doing two things: 1) forbidding marriage, and 2) commanding abstinence from certain foods.
Is this bad grammar, that this verse doesn't explicitly say something like παραγγελλοντων ἀπέχεσθαι [PARAGGELLONTWN APECESQAI], "commanding to abstain"?
Or is it possible, instead, that these certain persons are only forbidding marriage, and (grammatically) Paul is likening this forbidding of marriage to the abstinence from certain foods [an issue, as with circumcision, that the church has already settled does not need to be observed]?
Regards,
Tom Moore
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